srikalyan wrote:
Hi Everyone.
I am quite new to opensolaris and very much liking it. I would like to know how to mount extended partition on opensolaris (ext lba). I was using ubuntu before opensolaris and ubuntu use to do it automatically (all you need to do is click the drive). I did install every software which is required for mounting the ntfs drives and I can mount a primary partition on which I have vista. But, I also have windows 7 rc and another partition which holds all my code for my research in the extended partition. And, I have search a lot but could not find a right solution.
I think the support you need went into snv_119 with PSARC/2006/379
"Solaris on Extended partition" (supporting bug: 6644364 "Extended
partitions need to be supported on Solaris").
However, I don't believe snv_119 is available yet.
My suggestion to opensolaris team is that opensolaris is definitely is going to be a big hit and you guyz need to add few things so that i makes end user lives easy.
for eg:
preinstall gls (colored ls) and alias it in .bashrc.
I believe this is already there. Admittedly I'm using snv_119 (rather
than OpenSolaris), but "ls --color" gives me colour output. Adding the
appropriate alias in .bashrc is probably left as a personal
configuration rather than out-of-the-box for all users, however,
somebody may disagree with me there :-)
cd xyz+tab should only point only directories but not files. because it is a cd
command.
This is a shell thing AFAIK. I use tcsh which can offer completions
based on command and filetype. From the tcsh man page:
> complete cd 'p/1/d/'
will tell tcsh to only complete args to the cd command using
directories. I presume bash has something similar?
preinstall ntfs-3g and auto mount the partition just clicking the drive just
like ubuntu.
Bug 6819757 integrated ntfsprogs - I've not checked whether these are
the same as (or behave similarly to) ntfs-3g.
I'm not convinced by the argument to allow automounting of them (this
implies some heuristics to locate and 'type' each partition), but I
don't necessarily think it would be a bad thing to do.
[ I've lost track of how experimental the NTFS stuff is, so
automatically mounting may not be a good idea.]
-Brian
Thanks,
~Tiger.
--
Brian Ruthven
Solaris Revenue Product Engineering
Sun Microsystems UK
Sparc House, Guillemont Park, Camberley, GU17 9QG
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